[Capdist-auditions] Additional information for the auditions for "Inspecting Carol"

[Susan Ellis]

For those not familiar with the show, we thought it best to clarify a couple of things.

The character of Zorah Bloch is a female.
The character of Sidney Carlton is a male.
 
Also, here is a brief description:


Almost broke, the pathetic Soapbox Theatre Company is having a dickens of a time mounting their annual cash cow, the holiday classic A Christmas Carol. Tiny Tim is a bit too old and big, the Ghost of Jacob Marley keeps getting his chains tangled in the scenery, and there’s an inspector from the National Endowment for the Arts expected any minute.
When an inept new actor is mistaken for the inspector, cast and crew cater to his every whim to try to win government funding. The result? The most hilarious and disastrous production of A Christmas Carol ever. Part Noises Off, part Waiting for Guffman, this show has been a sidesplitting holiday hit ever since it premiered at the Seattle Rep.


 
 
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From: Susan Ellis <ourownproductionsinc at yahoo.com>
To: CAPDISTAUDITION <capdist-auditions at dx.ayw.org> 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:03 AM
Subject: Our Own ProductionS is holding auditions for "Inspecting Carol"
  

Our Own ProductionS
will be holding auditions for:

Inspecting Carol
by Daniel J.
Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre Company

Audition dates:
September 4 and 5, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.
Call backs will be September 7, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.
Rotterdam Senior Center
2639 Hamburg St.
Rotterdam, NY 12303
Directed by:  Edmund Metzold
Performance Dates:  11/30-12/2 and 12/7-12/10,2012
Emmanuel Friedens Church
218 Nott Terrace
Schenectady, NY 2307


Please
prepare a one minute comedic monologue.


CHARACTERS:

Please note:  The ages stated are not set
in stone.  

Zorah Bloch – Founding
director of The Soapbox Playhouse. Extremely self-involved. 40s 
Sidney Carlton – A
founding member of The Soapbox Playhouse. Kind but somewhat addled. 50s-60s. 
Dorothy Tree Hapgood –
Sidney’s wife. English and unable to lose her accent. Also a founding member.
50s-60s. 
Larry Vauxhall – Tough,
intellectually vain. Constantly agitating to alter the Soapbox’s Carol so it is
more socially relevent. A founding member. 40s-50s. 
Phil Hewlitt – Obsessive,
usually plays the intellectual character in any Soapbox production. Also a
founding member. 30s-40s. 
Walter E. Parsons –
African-American. Has recently taken up acting again after a stint in the armed
forces. Good-natured, excitable. Mid-20s-30s. 
Luther Beatty –
12-year-old. Really too big to be playing Tiny Tim, a role he has been
performing two years too long. Youthful actor under 18 could pull it off. 
Kevin Emory – Nervous, in
the impossible position of managing director. Afraid of Zorah. 30s 
M.J. (Mary Jane) McMann –
Stage manager. A realist who long ago realized the Playhouse had hit bottom.
She looks on now as a bemused observer. Sharp, ironic sense of humor; cracks
herself up. Also a founding member. 30s 
Betty Andrews – An
inpector fot the National Endowment for the Arts. A forbidding appearance.
30s-40s 
Bart Frances – A pleasant
youth. Dresses in motorcycle jacket and torn jeans. 20s 
Wayne Wallace – In search
of a new career in acting but has no training and less talent. Affable, eager
to please. Mid20s-30s.
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